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ThreatPhishing & impersonation

Fake electric/gas/water utility emergency disconnection notice requiring same-day payment to prevent cutoff — real utility disconnect notices come via physical mail and authenticated portal, not cold payment-link email.

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What this tier means

High-confidence threat indicator — phishing, impersonation, BEC, or scam pattern. Strong contributor to the trash decision.

How Gorganizer detects this

Fake electric, gas, or water utility emergency disconnection notice requiring immediate payment to prevent service cutoff — payment fraud targeting utility customers. Real utility disconnect notices are communicated via physical mail and authenticated customer portal; utilities never initiate same-day cutoff threats via cold inbound email with payment links. The extreme time pressure ("pay today or disconnection tonight") is the social engineering lever. Detection: utility service disconnect/cutoff vocabulary + immediate payment/pay today/avoid disconnection urgency + no In-Reply-To + not protected sender. Trash score: +4. Source: GC1-R20; APWG utility impostor phishing trend 2025; FTC utility scam advisory.

False-positive guard

Every signal in Gorganizer feeds a multi-module score — never a sole verdict. This is a threat-tier signal — it adds a strong contribution to the trash score. The full pipeline still requires convergence across multiple modules + a margin over the safety floor before deletion happens, and Gmail's trash (30-day recovery) is always used — never permanent delete.

About the scoring engine

Gorganizer's scoring engine emits over 1,800 signals across six modules — headers, sender, subject, body, attachments, and structural metadata. Every email is scored by every module independently; the final verdict requires multiple modules to agree and the trash score to beat the safety floor by a margin.

Sacred safety guards — never delete starred emails, replies, calendar invites, receipts/invoices, or attachments — apply unconditionally regardless of any signal.

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